For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUS. Every motor vehicle and every passenger carrying semitrailer used for the purpose of carrying passengers on a regular schedule of time and rates between fixed terminals, and every motor vehicle and every passenger carrying semitrailer designed for carrying more than ten passengers exclusive of the driver, except school buses and motor vehicles which are funeral equipment and are used in the operation of the funeral business.
DEPARTMENT. The Bureau of Motor Vehicles of this state, acting directly or through its duly authorized officials and agents.
FARM MACHINERY. Every grain and bean separator, combine, corn picker, ensilage cutter, corn sheller, corn shredder, hay raker, manure spreader, portable saw mill, all well drilling machinery and all seeding, cultivating and harvesting machinery.
FARM TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing farm machinery, including plows, mowing machines, harvesters and other implements of husbandry used on a farm and when using the public highways in traveling from one field or farm to another, or to or from places of repairs, and shall be exempt from registration or the display of license number plates or the payment of any fee. The term shall also include the wagon, trailer or other vehicle pulled by a farm tractor.
FARM TRACTOR USED IN TRANSPORTATION. Every farm tractor, including the wagon, trailer or other vehicle pulled by such tractor, used by the owner or operator for the transportation, but not for hire, of commodities upon the public highways, except between farms.
IMPLEMENT OF HUSBANDRY. Special farm machinery and farm machinery an defined in this section, as well as such other self-propelled equipment, specially adapted, to be capable of both over-the- road and off-road use, for the transportation and application of plant food materials or agricultural chemicals and vehicles designed to transport farm implements.
MANUFACTURED HOME. A structure that:
(1) Is assembled in a factory;
(2) Bears a seal certifying that it was built in compliancy with the federal manufactured housing construction and safety standards law (42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 et seq.);
(3) Is designed to be transported from the factory to another site in one or more units;
(4) Is suitable for use as a dwelling in any season; and
(5) Is more than 35 feet long.
MEDICAL SERVICES VEHICLE. Every vehicle that is used or intended to be used for the purpose of responding to emergency life-threatening situations and providing emergency transportation service, or any vehicle that is routinely used to transport patients who are not acutely ill or injured in a life- threatening manner.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Every vehicle, as defined the definition for VEHICLE, which is self propelled, except those vehicles which are included in the definitions for the terms FARM TRACTOR or IMPLEMENT OF HUSBANDRY as defined in this section.
MOTORCYCLE. A motor vehicle, except a farm tractor, or a motorized bicycle, with motive power having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground.
MOTORIZED BICYCLE. A two- or three-wheeled vehicle which may be propelled by an internal combustion engine or a battery powered motor, and when powered by an internal combustion engine having a rating of no more than two horsepower and a cylinder capacity not exceeding 50 cubic centimeters, an automatic transmission and maximum design speed of no more than 25 mph on a flat surface.
NEW MOTOR VEHICLE. Every motor vehicle that:
(1) Has not been previously titled under I.C. 9-17 and carries a manufacturer’s certificate of origin; and
(2) Has never been transferred by a manufacturer, distributor or dealer to an ultimate purchaser.
OWNER. A person who holds the legal title of a motor vehicle or any person renting or leasing a vehicle and having exclusive use thereof for a period longer than 30 days, or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease vested in the conditional vendee or leasee, or in the event the mortgagor thereof, with the right of purchase upon the performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee or mortgager shall be deemed to be the OWNER for the purpose of this subchapter.
PASSENGER MOTOR VEHICLE. Every motor vehicle designed for carrying passengers except a motorcycle, bus or school bus.
PERSON. Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation.
POLE TRAILER. Every two-wheeled vehicle that is used as a trailer with bolsters which support the load and does not have a rack or body extending to the tractor drawing the load.
POLICE OFFICER. Any regular member of the state police, any regular member of a city or town police department, any town marshal or town marshal deputy or any regular member of the County Sheriff’s Department.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE. Every vehicle with or without motive power equipped exclusively for living quarters for persons traveling upon the highways.
SCHOOL BUS. Every bus, hack, conveyance or motor vehicle used to transport school children to and from school and to and from school athletic games or contests or other school functions; but that every privately owned automobile, with a capacity of five passengers or less, which is used for the purpose of transporting school children to and from school is not a SCHOOL BUS.
SEMITRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power, designed for carrying property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle, and so constructed that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon, or is carried by, another vehicle, except every pole trailer, every two-wheeled homemade trailer, and a semitrailer used exclusively for carrying passengers, as defined under the term BUS in this section.
SPECIAL FARM MACHINERY. Every paint spray outfit, all livestock dipping equipment, and seed cleaning and treating equipment, when mounted and transported upon a trailer using the public highways.
STATE. The State of Indiana, unless by this context some other state or territory or federal district of the United States is meant or intended.
TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing or propelling trailers, semitrailers or vehicles of any kind, except a FARM TRACTOR, FARM TRACTOR USED IN TRANSPORTATION as defined in this section, or a tractor which is used exclusively for drawing a passenger carrying semitrailer.
TRAILER. Every vehicle without motive power designed for carrying persons or property, and designed for being drawn by a motor vehicle, and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle, and including every pole trailer and every two-wheeled homemade trailer.
TRUCK. Every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is, or may be, transported or drawn upon a public highway, except devices moved by human power, and shall not be construed to include such vehicles as run only on rails or tracks, vehicles propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails or tracks, fire trucks and apparatus owned by any person or municipal division of the state and used for fire protection, municipally owned ambulances and police patrol wagons, vehicles not designed for, or employed in, general highway transportation of persons or property and occasionally operated or moved over the public highway, including, but not limited to, road construction or maintenance machinery, movable devices designed, used or maintained to alert motorists of hazardous conditions on public highways, construction dust control machinery, well boring apparatus, ditchdigging apparatus, implements of husbandry and invalid chairs.
(BC Ord. 1991-10, passed 11-12-1991)